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...must ask for twice what you can get, then compromise for half (TIME, Oct. 2); and that the loser must have at least something to take home. He let the thunder roar, knowing he was on solid ground: go-day credits are usually regarded as equivalent to cash. But Cali fornia's resolute old Isolationist, Hiram Johnson, snapped: "This is the camel's nose under the tent...
...Foster, first criminal to be executed in the lethal gas chamber of the North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh. The Foster execution lasted eleven minutes, provoked a storm of newspaper criticism. Today lethal gas executions are legal in six States besides North Carolina-Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, and Cali-fornia-and are increasingly efficient, but to many conservative criminals and laymen alike the humdrum noose or electric chair still seems safer...
Soon after dawn one morning last week the four planes left Cali, Colombia for Panama. Because of adverse weather 'reports Major Frank Felix Miranda flew the Colon northeast up the valley between the ranges of the Cordilleras, sat down safely at his destination. The three Cuban planes, commanded by First Lieutenant Antonio Menendez Pelaez, transatlantic Naval ace, wanting to reach the coast before turning north, started to cross the Cordilleras to the west. Twelve miles beyond Cali observers could easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 21, daughter of Cali fornia's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson; from Rafael Lopez de Onate, 40, Philippine-born cinemactor with whom she eloped in 1934; in Los Angeles. Grounds: nonsupport...
...Asthmatics. Noel Franklin Shambaugh of the University of Southern Cali fornia has cured some sufferers from asthma by giving them drugs to loosen phlegm in their lungs, then having them assume a head-down posture. In that position, they hacked, coughed and spit for three minute periods morning " evening until asthma left them entirely...